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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

How Much Diligence is Due.Or Ive addressed the due diligence question in previous posts, but this came up again in a debate we were having at a recent meeting of the Sand Hill Angels. And in order to increase our groups returns, one of our goals should be to get more people and man hours involved in the diligence process.

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7 Tips To Secure Funding They Don’t Teach In Business School

YoungUpstarts

Caremerge’s technology and first-of-its-kind apps have transformed senior healthcare providing unprecedented coordination in patient care between institutions, patients and their families. In other words, you have done wonders while “bootstrapping.” Social networking is so last year. Show Capital Efficiency.

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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

His book — Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top. More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! You know, could you look at my business plan? Like this show?

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APWT Women Panel on Mobile Paradigm

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Over at HackerDojo , I attended a womens panel on “Mobile Paradigm&# organized by Asian Professional Women in Technology. The panel consisted of a CEO of a travel guide app for the iPad, a bootstrap developer of many iPhone apps and an iPad app, and a marketing person from a Shazam-competitor app. innovate, distribute, monetize.

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Pricing Strategy for Your SaaS Startup

Up and Running

Different sources define freemium as a business model or a pricing strategy. The tech-savvy millennials (me being one of them) are already familiar with the “shareware” concept that was turned into freemium. Let’s take a look and find what works best for you. Freemium isn’t free. How is your startup funded?

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Use the 10-5-3-1 formula for raising money: Have 10 great meetings with investors, 5 of those do detailed due diligience on your company, get 3 term sheets, and 1 transfer into your bank account! Raise more money than you need because your business model may change. Tags: Business Technology.

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ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

Professor VC

Dan Frommer, in Moneyball for tech startups , interviewed Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, Paul Graham and Ben Horowitz on the topic. And given that four of the most important tech investors in the world seem skeptical of it, if someone can figure out a good formula that works, they may be able to exploit it". How Much Diligence is Due.